A Week of Books Received and Other News

While Jeff is at the Shared Worlds Camp, I have hadÂ the pleasure of checking the mail each day (btw – he’s having a blast at camp and just spent the last few days with guest writer/lecturer Ekaterina Sedia).Â Here is a photo of all books received this week – above – some for review and others just because…

And I also am excited to present the working cover for Best American Fantasy.Â ARCs will be out very shortly and the actual book is scheduled for aÂ November release.Â Here’s the cover:

In other news, the next issue of Weird Tales is about to hit newsstands any day now.Â Â Lots of good stuff in there, including fiction from Norman Spinrad, Karen Heuler, Nick Mamatas, Kelly Barnhill and others as well as an interview with Mike Mignola by Elizabeth Genco, Lost in Lovecraft and other Weirdisms.Â Check it out.

More photos after the cut and a bit of help from Jackson….

Here is a group of books that arrived on Monday – which one doesn’t belong?

Books from Tokyo Pop:

More books…

And some more books

And more books, and even more books…

A couple more that came in today.

Interior of Wordless BooksÂ – a very cool book:

A very cool book from Leena Krohn – her new childrenâ€™s book:

She also did all the art for this book.Â Here is a sample:

And I will leave you with one last image.Â Here is Jackson “helping” me with all the mail!!

Yep, sorry. I did get your email, Tessa, and many thanks. The last 2 weeks at work have been from hell. I’ve never had so many customers on fire at the same time! (Sunspots???) Hard at work on submissions this weekend!!!

About Jeff VanderMeer

Photo by Kyle Cassidy

Jeff VanderMeer's most recent fiction is the NYT-bestselling Southern Reach trilogy (Annihilation, Authority, and Acceptance), released in 2014 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Foreign rights have sold in 17 countries and the movie rights have been acquired by Paramount Pictures/Scott Rudin Productions. His latest nonfiction books include Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction (Abrams Image). His nonfiction has appeared in the New York Times, the Guardian, the Washington Post, Atlantic.com, Vulture.com, and the Los Angeles Times. VanderMeer recently taught at the Yale Writers’ Conference and has lectured at MIT and the Library of Congress. You can contact him at pressinfo at vandermeercreative.com. (Author photo by Kyle Cassidy.) More...